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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a similar experience at Mojo. There were so many girls and my daughter was relatively new to the club and didn’t get a look from the start. We left. Ironically they were still supposedly looking for players and having more clinics afterward but we had accepted another offer from a club that actually watched her play and saw her value. It was a total money grab. No question. [/quote]

That's too bad, its hard to get noticed at a club tryout if you are new to club but great she accepted an offer from another club.

Every year after tryouts we see posts on this forum about how a player didn't get a fair tryout or was on the bottom court or wasn't watched enough by coaches.  While I don't think the PP story that started this discussion checks out because they weren't actually there, I'm sure there are tryouts where it does happen.

Genuine question for DCUM. Would you rather have tryouts open and available to everyone or closed and invite only? The other option in between those is for clubs to tell people they've not to show up to tryouts, but if they haven't seen you they can't do that.[/quote]

Tryouts are already limited to those who a) know about them; b) can pay the fees and get to them; c) register in time for the ones that fill up.  As a family we're in year 7 of volleyball (3 girls), and if I ran a club there is NO WAY I'd want the club to be closed & invite only.  MVSA doesn't even do that, but they do tell people not to show up on Day 2 while also saying only those who they're still looking at need to come to both days.  Only the absolutely best clubs could even think of doing closed/invite only tryouts, but that also means you'd miss, say, the headed-for-D-1-skill level player who just moved to DC and so is largely unknown as a player here but kills it on on the court.  Or the tall girls with natural talent who've never played club before but do pretty damn well and would be good for regional.  You don't see them if you don't know they exist to invite them.  So closed/invite only seems like a horrible idea unless you're Metro Travel or Paramount, and even then you might miss some killer unknown players once in awhile.[/quote]

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